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Quotes About Evolution

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.
~ Francis Collins
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
~ Dennis Gabor
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
~ James Lovelock
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
~ Anton Chekhov
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
~ Giambattista Vico
Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.
~ Joel Fuhrman
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
~ Pat Metheny
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
~ Gabrielle Roth
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
~ H.G. Wells
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
~ Oscar Wilde
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
~ Raymond Williams
Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.
~ Nam June Paik
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
~ Ernst Mayr
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
~ Rachel Carson
As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
~ Charles Darwin
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
~ Bertrand Russell
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
~ Alfred Russel Wallace
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
~ Charles Darwin